804 research outputs found
Australia marches on [music] /
No full textFor voice and piano.; "A song of inspiration dedicated to the fighting spirit of Australia".; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn1607648; N, -; A, Hince 433
Baxter, P W (Percy William), VX61939
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/370743Surname: BAXTER
Given Name(s) or Initials: P W (PERCY WILLIAM)
Military Service Number or Last Known Location: VX61939
Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 38709181098
Item: [2016.0049.03070] "Baxter, P W (Percy William), VX61939
That old country mother of mine [music] /
No full text"A song with a moral".; "Featured by Harry Baxter throughout Australia".; Cover bears photo of Harry Baxter and Cyril Robson.; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-an10522409; Covers vary
The Godwinian psychology of hope and its legacy in the work of Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley
No full textThis thesis examines the work of William Godwin in terms of a conjunction between secular Enlightenment optimism and the psychology of Christian hope. This conjunction produced his particular inflection of human perfectibility, where the idea of liberal improvement in society becomes a semi-fictional narrative of faith. This political philosophy is developed alongside a Dissenting literary theory that
understands literature as discussion, locating the means of improvement in the written text's influence over the mind of the reader. Godwin's interest in altering the mindset
of his readership as a means of political improvement sees him emphasise the idea of hope in his novels, seeking to sustain the progressive project through literature in the
face of the rise of anti-Jacobinism and Malthusian political economy in the late 1790s.
Percy Shelley defined his literary project as an attempt to revive liberal hope in the wake of the `failure' of the French Revolution, a definition initiated by his reading of
Godwin. His reaction against Wordsworthian conservatism is framed in the terms of Godwinian psychology. Percy Shelley's theories on the poet as `legislator' emerge
from his encounter with Godwin's ideas on reader-response as the vehicle of improvement. However, there is also a reaction against Godwinian hope, which sees Percy Shelley explore a countervailing anti-humanist disappointment.
A key theme of Mary Shelley's novels is the persistence of Godwinian hope. She discusses Godwinian ideas on benevolence and the absence of innate disposition to
crime as a means of reviving the progressive project. While Mary Shelley explores the collapse of liberal optimism, she makes a paradoxical attempt to sustain Godwinian hope through a disappointed lament for its demise.
The thesis contends that the work of these authors constituted a coherent debate on the liberal Enlightenment, forming an important presence in British literary culture
from 1793 up to the verge of the first Reform Bill in 1832
More conversations with Walker Percy
No full textThis collection of interviews supplements Conversations with Walker Percy and occasions an additional two dozen pleasurable encounters with Percy. Primarily from the last ten years of Percy's life, they show how his presence was stimulating thought in much of humanistic America, in literature, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy, and in cultural life in general. Although this acclaimed author of The Moviegoer, Lancelot, and Love in the Ruins never overcame his shyness with interviewers, he continued to grant interviews as long as his health permitted. This act of openness illustrates his humility before his ideas and his desire to help others understand them. Although the questions he was asked almost invariably became predictable, he always managed to add an anecdote, an illustration, a topical reference, that would breathe new life into the responses he was making. The interviews in this collection show him at the height when he knew that his illness would not allow him to write any more books, and that the only way to restate his ideas and offer a valediction to the large audience to whom he had always been kind, patient, and appreciative was to speak out. Percy despised the posture of many modern self-proclaimed intellectuals who delight in cloaking ideas in jargon and abstraction. He always tried to express himself clearly and as free of reservations as possible. These interviews reflect that clarity. With this book readers will welcome yet more close encounters with him
A Hundred Fables: Aesop (Cover: Aesop's Fables Coloring Book)
No full textHere is curious 8½" x 11" print-upon-demand paperback book that gives two pages -- one for text and one for illustration -- to 100 fables from Aesop. Outside of the covers, the book is entirely black-and-white. It hurries to begin, with only a page to acknowledge the publisher and a page to declare a title -- one of three -- and a word of explanation about Aesop and Percy Billinghurst. Similarly, at the end there are only two pages of advertisements. I miss rudiments like a T of C or AI. The three titles are "Aesops Fables Coloring Book" (front cover); "A Hundred Fables Aesop" (inside); and Aesops Fables with Illustrations by Percy J. Billinghurst: 100 Fables and Illustrations" (back cover). The texts are taken without acknowledgement from George Fyler Townsend (1867).No Autho
Janes, Percy. Interview with author Percy Janes about his book, House of Hate.
No full textJanes, Percy. William Atkinson interviews author, Percy Janes, about his book, House of Hate. House of Hate was Janes' first novel; strong public reaction to the autobiographical novel; William Atkinson describes the plot and messaging of the book; Janes speaks to the need to address the experiences of his life; the structure of the book as an arch; the reaction of his siblings in Cornerbrook; the wider reference to Newfoundland family life at the time it was written; the right to draw upon life experiences and questions of fair representation; feedback from Robert Colbourne, Fiddlehead Magazine; feedback from Margaret Lawrence and Farley Mowat; inspiration from other writers including Thomas Wolfe, DH Lawrence and Tolstoy; the traditional family system; the ideal life of a writer; Canadian literature and its position in the world; ongoing project, No Cage for Conquerors
Janes, Percy. Interview with author Percy Janes about his book, House of Hate.
No full textJanes, Percy. William Atkinson interviews author, Percy Janes, about his book, House of Hate. House of Hate was Janes' first novel; strong public reaction to the autobiographical novel; William Atkinson describes the plot and messaging of the book; Janes speaks to the need to address the experiences of his life; the structure of the book as an arch; the reaction of his siblings in Cornerbrook; the wider reference to Newfoundland family life at the time it was written; the right to draw upon life experiences and questions of fair representation; feedback from Robert Colbourne, Fiddlehead Magazine; feedback from Margaret Lawrence and Farley Mowat; inspiration from other writers including Thomas Wolfe, DH Lawrence and Tolstoy; the traditional family system; the ideal life of a writer; Canadian literature and its position in the world; ongoing project, No Cage for Conquerors
Percy Lisk letter, MSS.1935
No full textAbstract: This collection contains a poem by an unknown author sent to Percy Lisk of Conner. The poem is about a doctor and includes a hand drawn image of a doctor.Scope and Content Note: This collection contains a poem by an unknown author sent to Percy Lisk of Conner. The poem is about a doctor and includes a hand drawn image of a doctor.Biographical/Historical Note
[12a] Percy Shelley Monument, Christchurch, England [front]
No full textA photograph of the Percy Shelley Monument, a Neoclassical sculpture, in Christchurch, England. The statue was commissioned by Shelley’s surviving son, Percy Florence Shelley, and was carved by Henry Weekes in the early 1850’s. The sculpture depicts Shelley, who drowned off the coast of Italy in 1822, being held by his wife, Mary Wollstonecroft Shelley, author of Frankenstein.https://scholarworks.uni.edu/his_monuments_sp2022/1016/thumbnail.jp
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